I like the Royal Family and yes they do fek all and get loads of money from the state.

But then they are a royal family with a fairly lively history behind them which has shaped quite a bit of the world today. Not bad for a load of in-breads with a blood-lust, now only limited to shooting endangered species.

However today, the royals are probably our best marketing took for UK PLC. I'd imagine that this country makes quite a bit more than we spend on clothing and feeding our royal family both directly with royal visits and indirectly selling kitch mugs and Typhoon jets.

And say what you like, this batch of young royals have done a lot better than their parents, Charles, Diana, Fergey, Andy and Eddy.

Still on the fence with Harry but he was young and is growing out of fancy dress, but at least he has injected new DNA into the gene-pool from his dad.

I can guarantee that if you paid me, my wife and kids to go on an all expenses luxury trip around New Zealand and Australia, we would do an equally good job. We are both qualified because I am also thinning on top and my wife has a lovely smile and similar hair to Kate plus our youngest is also very cute and unlike George and smile on demand! And we would offer better value because we would be more than happy to throw in a few high profile media interviews for free!

Tim is definitely a royalist, he gets very touchy with people suggesting that being born in to one particular family perhaps isn't the best way to choose a head of state. I suppose it is questioning God's will.

In reply to Tim Chappell: I think it's a shame that given past treatment of the Royals by the press, Kate has to go around being the quiet Royal wife so she doesn't draw any flack (except for anything to do with her appearing to not be a person in her own right).

It seems a funny kind of life to me, to be in the media spot light and to just go around being friendly and smiling. In a non judgemental way, somehow superficial.

Who are these Wills, Kate and George of whom you speak? I can only assume you mean William Arthur Philip Louis, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cambridge, Earl of Strathearn and Baron Carrickfergus; Catherine Elizabeth, Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge, Countess of Strathearn and Lady Carrickfergus; and George Alexander Louis, Prince George of Cambridge. Or some such.

As yet, the lazy f*ckers haven't managed to visit their earldom in Scotland.

> While my head is anti-monarchy, my heart is pretty ambivalent. I think William seems a decent sort; hard to be negative about him. I wouldn't want his life.

I'd love his life. I'm always slightly bewildered when the press describe their six week, tax payer funded, escorted, flunky-accompanied, everything-taken-care off uber-premier-class trips around the most exotic parts of the world as 'gruelling'